Would you let AI Michael Caine read you The Odyssey in a new audiobook?

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It is not just actors, but also people who lend their voice, who are at risk of losing jobs to AI. 

But Caine is not really telling the story. Instead, he licensed his voice to ElevenLabs, a company that produces audiobooks and other content voiced by artificial intelligence, which used an AI clone of his voice for the project.

may question whether such a rendition can capture the emotional and dramatic scope of Homer’s tale.

fearing a future where publishers and audiobook production companies can cut out human narrators entirely by ordering up faster, cheaper AI narrations featuring facsimiles of famous voices.

synthetic voices cannot recreate the emotional nuances of the text. ....With a human narrator, “the voice and the thinking behind the character can emerge over the course of the performance”..... “It’s hard to see how AI can really do that

Qn: To what extent is artificial intelligence replacing the role of humans? (Cam. 2019)